The Invention of Nature

, vol.1, no.8, October 1859, pp.225–46; for Marsh’s membership, see vol.1, no.1, January 1859, p.iii.

3

‘dullest owl in’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 26 August 1859, UVM.

4

Marsh’s finances: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 25 April 1859; Marsh to Francis Lieber, May 1860, Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp.405–6, 417; Lowenthal 2003, p.154ff.

5

Marsh’s work summer 1859: Lowenthal 2003, p.199.

6

‘like an escaped convict’: Marsh to Caroline Marsh, 26 July 1859, ibid.

7

‘with all my might’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 26 August 1859, UVM.

8

Marsh’s AH books: Lowenthal 2003, p.64; Marsh owned the 1849 German edition of the extended

Views of Nature

, several volumes of

Cosmos

(also in German) as well as a biography and other books about Humboldt. He had also read

Personal Narrative

, see Marsh 1892 pp.333–4; Marsh 1864, pp.91, 176.

9

‘done more to extend’: Marsh, ‘Speech of Mr. Marsh, of Vermont, on the Bill for Establishing The Smithsonian Institution, Delivered in the House of Representatives’, 22 April 1846, Marsh 1846.

10

‘infinite superiority’: Ibid.; for Germans and German books: Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.90–1, 100, 103; Lowenthal 2003, p.90

11

sister-in-law’s husband: Caroline Marsh to Caroline Estcourt, 15 February 1850, Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.161.

12

fluent in twenty languages: Lowenthal 2003, p.49.

13

‘Dutch … can be learned’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 10 October 1848, Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.128.

14

Marsh used German words: Marsh to Caroline Escourt, 10 June 1848; Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 15 September 1848; Marsh to Caroline Marsh, 4 October 1858, Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp. 123, 127, 400.

15

‘greatest of the priesthood’: Marsh, ‘The Study of Nature’,

Christian Examiner

, 1860, Marsh 2001, p.83.

16

‘walking encyclopaedia’: George W. Wurts to Caroline Marsh, 1 October 1884; for his childhood and reading habits, Lowenthal 2003, pp.11ff., 18–19, 374; Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp.38, 103.

17

‘forest–born’: Marsh to Charles Eliot Norton, 24 May 1871, Lowenthal 2003, p.19.

18

‘I spent my early’: Marsh to Asa Gray, 9 May 1849, UVM.

19

Marsh hated clients: Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.40; Lowenthal 2003, p.35.

20

disliked teaching: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 25 April 1859, Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.406.

21

Marsh unsuccessful: Lowenthal 2003, pp.35, 41–2.

22

‘entirely without oratorical’: Caroline Marsh about Marsh, Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.64.

23

‘If you live much’: James Melville Gilliss to Marsh, 17 September 1857, Lowenthal 2003, p.167.

24

diplomatic posting: Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.133ff.; Lowenthal 2003, p.105.

25

‘a state of fearful’: Marsh to C.S. Davies, 23 March 1849, Lowenthal 2003, p.106.

26

American Minister to Turkey: Lowenthal 2003, pp.106–7, 117; Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.136.

27

tasks ‘very light’: Marsh to James B. Estcourt, 22 October 1849, Lowenthal 2003, p.107.

28

Caroline and Marsh: Lowenthal 2003, pp.46, 377ff; Caroline Marsh, 1 and 12 April 1862, Caroline Marsh Journal, NYPL, pp.151, 153.

29

female emancipation: Lowenthal 2003, p.381ff.

30

‘brilliant talker’: Cornelia Undewood to Levi Underwood, 5 December 1873, Lowenthal 2003, p.378.

31

‘old owl’ and ‘a croaker’: Marsh to Hiram Powers, 31 March 1863, ibid.

32

Caroline Marsh’s ill health: Lowenthal 2003, pp.47, 92, 378.

33

illness ‘incurable’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 6 July 1859, UVM.

34

Marsh carried Caroline: Marsh to Caroline Estcourt, 19 April 1851, Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp.219.

35

Nile expedition: Marsh to Lyndon Marsh, 10 February 1851; Marsh to Frederick Wislizenus, 10 February 1851; Marsh to H.A. Holmes, 25 February 1851; Marsh to Caroline Estcourt, 28 March 1851, Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp.205, 208, 211ff.

36

‘fresh from the Desert’: Marsh to Caroline Estcourt, 28 March 1851, ibid. p.213.

37

‘very earth’: Marsh to Caroline Estcourt, 28 March 1851, ibid., p.215.

38

‘I should like to know’: Ibid.

39

‘subdued by long’: Marsh to Frederick Wislizenus and Lucy Crane Frederick Wislizenus, 10 February 1851, ibid., p.206.

40

‘restless activity’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.11; AH Views 2014, p.158; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.13.

41

‘political and moral’: AH Plant Geography 2009, p.73.

42

‘wherever he stepped’: AH, 10 March 1801, AH Diary 2003, vol.1, p.44; for AH on deforestation in Cuba and Mexico, see AH Cuba 2011, p.115; AH New Spain 1811, vol.3, pp.251–2.

43

‘How I envy your’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 3 May 1851, Marsh 1888, vol.1, p.223.

44

‘a student of nature’: Marsh to American Consul-General in Cairo, 2 June 1851, ibid., p.226.

45

‘Scorpions are not yet’: Marsh to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 23 August 1850, ibid., p.172.

46

‘and all else’: Spencer Fullerton Baird to Marsh, 9 February 1851; see also 9 August 1849 and 10 March 1851, UVM.

47

‘Trust nothing to the’: Marsh 1856, p.160; Lowenthal 2003, pp.130–31.

48

‘most part barren’: Marsh to Caroline and James B. Estcourt, 18 June 1851; for travels in 1851, see Marsh to Susan Perkins Marsh, 16 June 1851, Marsh 1888, vol.1, pp. 227–32, 238; Lowenthal 2003, pp.127–9.

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